As the Wheeler’s Turn

Kaden has decided we should all be monsters for halloween.  He is lord vampire and Asher wants to be a werewolf.  Kaden performed his vampire voice for us that he told us he has been practicing since he was one. When he was one though he practiced it in his head because he couldn’t talk yet. Love that kid!

My oldest boys are at father and sons campout. It rained today for the first time in months. Not just a light pattering. We got a full downpour with violent winds and loud rumblings. I hope their first camping experience doesn’t ruin them.  They were excited to go though Kaden wanted me to come too. He also wanted his own bed with his blanket and pillow and cold cereal for breakfast. He gets everything on his list except for his bed.   The rain had spotted before they left. I wouldn’t be shocked if they came home early.

I stayed home with silas. He was not happy about bring left behind. He  didn’t cry too long though.  He needed a diaper change and so I did that but then he wouldn’t let me put his shorts back on him. He took off running and brought back his spiderman pjs. Silas insisted on putting them on. Then we snuggled on the couch and watched a sesame street.  He quickly fell asleep and suddenly I had the house to myself at 7 pm!

I promptly wasted my time and went to bed about the same time add usual. Thr one bright soot was when a friend brought by her daughter to show me her new haircut. Totally adorable cut and her hair is going to locks of love. She had a younger sister that is a couple months younger than Silas. She just turned eighteen months and she very clearly asked me, ”where’s silas?” I told her he was asleep and asked her if she wanted to see a picture of him. She said yes. So I showed her a picture of all three of my boys. She pointed to silas and said,” there’s silas.” She also said, ” there’s asher.”  Her mom and I already have her and silas betrothed. Only in jest and semi-hopefulness. She would make a great mom-in-law.

Silas now says, Asher! We still have to interpret it a bit but he is definitely referring to Asher.

He also says, I got it, go away, and stop it.  He will point to your nose and his nose and say, nose. He says, where’d it go? while hiding things. He said, prog, referring to the frog in his hand in the bath this morning. He tells you a cow says moo. He calls Matt and I daddy and mommy though our other boys call us mama and dada. He says, bye-bye, daddy. He says juice. He says fish. Silas roars for a bear. He saw people flying in a cartoon and said flying while pointing at them. He says, what’s that when he hears a sound he is unfamiliar with.

Asher is also an amazing builder. He creates amazing objects with his duplo. Usually he creates robots or spaceships. I have a great photo of a pirate ship he made too.  I’ll post it later…

Our sweet Asher Basher is four. It seems a magic grown up number somehow. And yet, he continues with the same antics.
He lets his brother do all of the cleaning unless I specifically assign him tasks. Lately I’ve taken to making him clean up the rest of the playroom after Kaden has done a fair amount.
He won’t stay close in the store or come when he is called.
He doesn’t like following directions.
He is always bouncing around and standing on his head.
He loves gymnastics and is getting better at following directions.
His first friend is Kaden and his second is Wesley.(neighbor and church friend)
He wants to marry either allie or Rachel (wesley’s older and younger sisters).
He is quick to laugh and quick to smile.
He plays really well with his brothers.
He is a meat eater.
He loves preschool because he likes to play with his friends.
He is a sensitive sweet little guy.
He is skinny! When they are seated in a shopping cart people often ask me if asher and silas are twins.
He is quick to say I love you.
He loves juice.
He loves backyardigans and sesame street.
He has perfect timing for his sense of humor.
He is very specific about what he wants to wear each day- usually a superhero shirt.
Silas worships Asher and does everything that he does.
Asher likes to pretend to be a robot or a superhero.
He’s a good story teller.
He brightens each day with his energetic goofy self!!!

This morning kaden came into our room with a croaky voice. We asked him how he was feeling and started mentally rearranging or day so that we could accomplish what we needed to do and take care of a sick kid. He started off saying that he didn’t feel good and that he needed to stay home. I reminded him that he was supposed to give a talk today and he changed his tune.  He immediately said that he wanted to go to church and that he had to give his talk. He said, and I quote, ”I love giving talks!”  His croaky voice cleared up with a drink of water and he gave an excellent talk. He’s a lot like my dad in that he doesn’t really like crowds but he loves public speaking. He wanted to go home after his talk and said he was sleepy. He had to sit through my class first though.  Kaden is quick to insist that we read scriptures every night and would say every family prayer if he could. Hope we can follow his example!

He says very clearly, ”I want that one.”
guys was one of his first words. He uses it for either action figures or referring to his brothers.
He said the word orange to our babysitter this week in reference to a balloon. That’s been asher’s favorite color for awhile.  so saying that color is probably part of his hero worship of asher.

Also he colors better and longer than most of the three year olds in nursery. Ooh that was quite a brag.  the nursery leader told me that though so it’s not just me being a biased mom. This is also something he gets from his brothers who love to color and draw. 

When Silas asks for food he grand your thumb and drags you to whatever it is that he wants and them points and often says either yeah, yeah, yeah or please, please, please. I give him one of whatever it is and then he holds out his other hand and says, two!.

He loves getting dressed and will bring me clothes in the morning sometimes. Often he just brings two shirts.  Today he wanted to wear a hoodie. He brought one of kaden’s but wasn’t happy with the fit (he likes his hands out of the sleeves). So I got him his hoodie and he insisted on having the hood up. He’s been wearing it that way for at least an hour.
The handsome fashionista

Kaden just played hangman with me. He doesn’t quite get the rules or how to spell things but he guesses well. His first wood for me to guess was Nex. He says it is an animal hero on his computer. I lost that round. His second word for me to guess was Ninjago. I was scared when I saw the seven letters I needed to guess. I won that round with a little spelling help for him.

I just asked Asher what he wanted for dinner and he said, ”juice.” I asked him what else he wanted and he said, ”milk.” He giggled the whole time. The funny pay is that is pretty much what Asher lives on. He would love to have an all liquid diet.